Cafeteria: Monday Lunchtime

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion was a girl on a mission. What little information she had retained from the weekend was now devoted to her protecting the cafeteria from the Viking horde which would inevitably attempt to redcorate it.

Heartless Vikings.

Which is why anyone showing up for lunch today would find her guarding the entrace to the cafeteria wielding a large metal soup ladle and a colander on her head.

And no one.. NO ONE was going to make her stray from her sworn duty.

[QUESTION: How long has it been since there was a cafeteria post? ANSWER: Too long! Open post is open.]

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[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Del wasn't sure what the heck was Dandelion was doing at the door, but whatever it was, it looked like fun.

"Eh...hi?" It was better to be polite, right?

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Del!" Dandelion said in greeting. "Are you here to defend the cafeteria from the Viking horde or today's special?"

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

"HECK YEAH!"

Dandelion didn't even need to ask, really. Of course, Del wasn't entirely sure what she had just agreed to do.

"Um...what?"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Viking horde," Dandelion said glad to have one on her team or... getting lunch. "Or Meatloaf. Either way it's a battle to the death. Or at least a minor bruise with a stomache."

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Del was all for the fight, but she wanted to eat as well!

"Maybe, um, meatloaf? Until a viking comes? Haven't seen those around so maybemaybemaybe they are having lunch as well?" It was a plausible idea.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Plausible idea!

Dandelion turned to look into the cafeteria. Thus far there were no horned helmets, bearded folk or someone wielding a giant hammer and making it thunder and rain while riding in a cart pulled by goats.

However if there was one thing Dandelion knew is that Vikings were CUNNING.

"Good," she said keeping one eye on the tables and another on the hallway. "You keep an eye out for Viking hordes inside and I'll look for them out here. You can tell a viking by their atrocious table manners and dumb helmets."

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Sometimes Del had those!

And the plan was flawless, so Delirium was already heading into the cafeteria to order a little of everything and pie, when she realized the other girl was going to stay outside.

"Do you, um, want something to eat? Food. Sort of, inside. Yes?" Although Del knew of Dandelion's sacrifice by keeping an eye for vikings, the girl might want to eat properly.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"No eating," she replied as she kept an eye on the hallway. "Vikings. Prowling. Must be constantly vigilant."

...

"Got any Mentos? They're a freshmaker."

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

No eating was like something really bad -at least for humans-, but Dandelion had a mission! You can't argue with a mission!

...

"I'll, um, buy some!" That was the last thing she could do, of course!

"...Do you have any, um, money? Cash. Coins. Bills...paperclips?"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Oooo! Money."

There was a quick excavation of her pokets revealing no money but plenty of buttons. "I wondered where all those had ended up."

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Del was so not looking in her pockets; last time she checked she probably saw something moving, and even if it was her own insanity speaking, she wasn't going to trust it.

So she needed to drive the cafeteria person a little on the crazy side of the road so they could get free meals now. Well, as long as the food was good...

"I'll be, um, right back!"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion nodded, ever VIGILANT in her guarding duties.

Except for when she spaced out and began thinking of days of yore when Robot Phil had merely been PC Phil and lacking a personality, arms and the ability to play the electric bass.

*sigh*

Except for that? VIGILANT!

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, Dandelion; Delirium's path had been diverted by a line of ants, and she was in collision course to a wall.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Which is fine by Dandelion because now she was having fantasies about being tutored by master carpenter Norm Abrams on how to use a lathe.

Laaaaaaaathe.

That vigilant thing really wasn't working out.

[Okay by me!]

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

So, about an hour later, people have entered and left the cafeteria, and Del had managed to find the cafeteria lady in a moment of particular insanity -she was rambling about germs and healthy food, figures-, so it was pretty easy to make her believe she had already been paid, and while she was on it, Del made sure to make her see the whole place as squeaky clean and shiny. Very shiny.

Getting back at the entrance, Del handled a plate full of food to Dandelion, and then the Mentos, because hey, she remembered!

"Any, um, vikings?"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"No, but I'm pretty sure I saw a Hottentot," Layla said scanning the hallway. "Or I imagined it. Either way it was fairly quiet."

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

"Hottenwha?" Del assumed it was special sort of viking; maybe a viking with wings?

"It wasn't, um, my fault. Really. I think? Only the cafeteria lady went crazy,

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Dandelion was nutty enough without a boost from Del.

"Did she start talking to the sloppy joes?" she asked. "I swear I heard that in a song sometime..."

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

There was an armored lass standing in the way between James of Krondor and Food.

"Hello?" Friendly. Polite. A grin to win over anyone.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion on the other hand? Rather suspicious.

"Are you a viking?" she demanded to know.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

All Tim wanted to do was get some food. "Uh. Hi," he said. "Is there something wrong in there?"

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," he asked, staying well out of range of the ladle. "What is a viking?"

[mania-endless.livejournal.com]

Delirium and Dandelion, a duo that was never meant to happen?

She nodded once, trying to swallow a chuck of food. "Said something about getting them dressed and, um, taking them to a trip around Saturn." Which in her opinion was a rather nice thing to do with the sandwiches.

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

Look, it was purely coincidence Hiccup was here. He'd had no idea the crazy girl was going to be ...guarding the cafeteria. He grinned a huge grin, then schooled his face to something approximating seriousness.

It was only a shame he hadn't brought a shield or two.

"Curses!" he exclaimed. "You've foiled my savage Viking cunning with your figuring out that lunch time might find me in a place where they have food!" This was complete with dramatic hand gestures. "Whatever will I do now to ruthlessly inflict my Norse heritage on this unsuspecting school?"

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Vikings," Dandelion said enigmatically. "Cunning vikings."

Yeah, that was pretty much her explanation.